[Yum-devel] Fedora update metadata

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 17:53 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> Who wants to define the magical and arbitrary format? any takers? All it
> needs is something like:
>  package

Should probably support multiple packages being part of the same
"update"

>  distro
>  version

Version of package or distro?  I'd say that distro+version is really
just one thing.

>  description of problem
>  URLS
>  CVE's resolved

Mark Cox will love you :-)

>  SOME MAGICAL IDENTIFIER
> 
> 
> anything else?

Nothing really springs to mind.

> A parser + display for that shouldn't be too hard. 

Yeah, I don't think we want any markup at all -- they should be able to
be pure text.  Display is then pretty trivial.

> The filename should
> be based on the pkgid in the primary.xml.gz for each package.

I doubt we want n copies of the advisory for each of the n packages it
pertains to -- it would probably be better to use the unique identifier
for the update and then tie that into primary.xml

Jeremy